FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

She is beauty, she is grace,
She smush window with her face.

I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.

I've been hacking the radio in my 2013 Subaru Outback, here's what I've found so far:
- It runs on Windows CE 5.0
- The main GUI is powered by a single HUGE Adobe Flash program (ActionScript!)
- The CPU is a 32bit SuperH SH-4A architecture (SH7780) running at 500MHz
- There's a custom ASIC on board which appears to multiplex access to SDRAM?
- The Bluetooth module (CK5050+) runs Linux and is likely more powerful than the main CPU lol

#hacking #electronics #linux

PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code

@gorplop

CVE -12000-0001 Agricultural Revolution will lead to unintended consequences many of which will be serious (CVSS 9.8)

WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION! WARNING! ALERT! CAUTION!

If COVID has taught us anything, it's that people should be wearing masks in all healthcare settings, COVID or not.

In addition, if you're coughing or experiencing any other symptoms and can't stay home, please ensure you wear a mask wherever you go.

It doesn't matter if it's COVID or not, it's a matter of respect to try to do everything within your power to not expose others to whatever you may have.

tired: it's your own fault if the TLD your organization depends on evaporates for unrelated political reasons entirely out of your control

wired: shut down every .com whose index.html doesn't execute cleanly in x86 real mode

I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

New #blog post wherein misreading a @foone post made me ask the question "What if we put an image in your image?"

This post was in my drafts for months, finally found a few seconds to finish it off.

(Replies to this post will appear as comments on the blog post)

https://jszym.com/blog/xmp-steganography/

#steganography #xmp #metadata

if there's anything i've learned from watching old movies it's that mirrors in the past really sucked

it has been 0 days since i've been asked to agree to the- wait, what?

bitmaps per Beholder